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Are you doing things that would enable Microsoft to get a court order against you? What parallels do you see with the actual facts of this case?
by kvb 13y ago
Are you doing things that would enable Microsoft to get a court order against you? What parallels do you see with the actual facts of this case?
- PythonicAlpha 13y agoIf they could get a court order, why did they not do so? I am really amused about the law feeling in the US. It seems to me, that in the US it is enough that a big company thinks that it can get a court order -- in that case nothing else is needed -- don't waste the time of the courts just go on. Why not allow MS to also do the punishment -- don't waste any court-time! Really cute! To come to your question: There are cases, where you can get warrants because you infringe patents. So, when MS thinks, that I could infringe one -- why not search my office documents first?? Is this enough example? I would say, there could be thousands ... just imagine a world where the lawyers of the big companies make the court decisions ... <sarcastic>would be OK, they are making the laws anyway!</sarcastic>
- kvb 13y agoBecause, in the US legal system, you can't get a court order to compel yourself to do something (as far as I am aware).
- rando289 13y agoMaybe, maybe not. Perhaps I am an employee with a big technology company like google and my company has a wide array of partnerships, contracts, and ongoing lawsuits with various microsoft business units. Some court may give a court order to disclose some email from some employees of my company, but Microsoft might just decide to search every hotmail account of every employee of my company for whatever reason they want, and only reveal extremely limited subset as required by specific litigation.